Monday marked the 75th anniversary of the day the ENIAC — aka the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer — was first made public here in Philadelphia on Feb. 15, 1946. The ENIAC was the first ...
The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department. In a small corner of the University ...
ENIAC filled an entire room. With its bank of blinking lights and 6,000 manual switches, it looked like something we'd associate with a 1950s science fiction movie. Probably because it's what spawned ...
On 15 February 1946, Penn’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania, US, unveiled the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC). The machine, which was developed between 1943 ...
In 1942, six mathematicians were selected to program a machine that would help the US army calculate complex wartime ballistics tables. Using their combined mathematical and technical skill, these six ...
News.com has a package commemorating the 60th anniversary of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first electronic computer that could handle large scale calculations. The 28-ton ...
Jean Bartik, the last of the original ENIAC programmers, died this morning. She was 86. She was born Betty Jean Jennings, on Dec. 27, 1924 and raised on a Missouri farm. Her first job was as a human ...